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The unemployment rate held steady as 62,000 jobs disappeared in June, the Labor Department reported.

Deeply, deeply disturbing.

Subsidizing "alternative energy" isn't an "investment" if the govt does it; because it has no fiscal responsibility, the govt spends; it doesn't invest. In addition, the mobility provided by individual transportation is a key element in the prosperity of

Companies ripping off taxpayers in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars may never be fully prosecuted unless Congress does more to go after war profiteers.

Once oil passed $140 a barrel, even the most rabidly right-wing media hosts had to prove their populist cred by devoting a portion of every show to bashing Big Oil. Some have gone so far as to invite me on for a friendly chat about an insidious new phenom

Do we really have no choice but to become prisoners of a culture that robs us. It all sounds so achingly obvious. Our houses are too big, our jobs are too far away and our neighbors are strangers.

Two high-flying French exchange students found dead in their burnt-out flat in Britain were tied up and horrifically murdered in a 'Tarantino-style' attack. Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, who were on three-month placements at Imperial College, Londo

This morning was downright cool in the Charlotte region -- cool enough to break a record that had stood for more than a century. extra description

A gas used in the making of flat screen televisions, nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), is being blamed for damaging the atmosphere and accelerating global warming. Almost half of the televisions sold around the globe so far this year have been plasma or LCD